| LC control no. | n 91058539 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Apocalypse now (Motion picture) |
| See also | Film director: Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- Film producer: Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- Screenwriter: Milius, John Screenwriter: Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- Motion picture adaptation of (work): Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness |
| Other standard no. | 10.5240/AE0D-9935-C362-3667-9FC3-T Q182692 |
| Form of work | Motion pictures Fiction films Film adaptations War films Thrillers (Motion pictures) Feature films |
| Beginning date | 1979 |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Found in | Coppola, E. Notes, 1991: t.p. (Apocalypse now) LC data base, 06-12-91 (hdg: Apocalypse now. [Motion picture]) IMDb, Feb. 25, 2015 (Apocalypse now (1979); director: Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola); writers: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola); Francis Ford Coppola, producer (as Francis Coppola); genres: Drama, War) alternate versions (a longer director's cut, titled Apocalypse now redux debuted in 2001; re-edited by Coppola and Walter Murch, 53 min. longer) Wikipedia, Feb. 25, 2015 (Apocalypse now; 1979 American epic psychological thriller war film set during the Vietnam War; produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola; written by John Milius, Francis Coppola; production company: Omni Zoetrope; country: United States; the screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of changing the setting of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into that of the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness, and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)) |
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